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Trying to make primaries shorter and more select...
...convincing executives that the Administration now loves them and wants to help them will take a hard selling job by Carter. The Administration's priorities, while clear enough, are emphatically not those that businessmen would select. Most executives are frightened by inflation, fear that it may bring an end to the expansion in a year or two despite Carter's tax cuts, and think the President should crack down on it by cutting federal spending and the budget deficit more than he intends. Businessmen and economists, like Murray Weidenbaum, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, consider his anti...
Local prosecutors select their career violators using individual systems. Louisville targets suspects with two previous felony convictions or five arrests. Washington concentrates on parolees who are arrested again, for a crime of violence; Detroit zeros in on three-time offenders charged with murder, rape, household burglary and armed robbery. Boston uses a "case evaluation form," based on a ten-point penalty system. Penalty points are given for brutality, use of firearms, parole or bail status at the time of the crime, and even strength of the evidence against the suspect. Any suspect who gets ten points or more gets...
Daniel Schorr, the former CBS newsman who leaked a House Select Intelligence Committee report to the press, on his new career as a syndicated columnist: "I must overcome too much exposure as a story and get back to being a reporter...
...games keep growing and becoming more realistic, we will no longer need technical schools. Just select an occupation, play the game for a couple of years and have the company send us a diploma...